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I was already impressed, then I got to the part where he wrote a tool chain with Rust and a test suite for RISC-V which runs in game. Then I decided the kid wa
by russellbeattie 3y ago
I was already impressed, then I got to the part where he wrote a tool chain with Rust and a test suite for RISC-V which runs in game.
Then I decided the kid was a young whippersnapper who's way too big for his britches and "kids these days" and all the other things old people think to make themselves feel better when they're being obsoleted.
- ok_dad 3y agoI figure I would never have competed with this kid; he’s making people like jwz or antirez obsolete, not me! I’ll always be way more mediocre than this person.
- smaudet 3y agoI don't think he's dumb, but I also think a lot of people underestimate what they are capable of. Its a neat project, but it is one of those lots-of-grinding projects. Any tech professional should be able to pull this off, reasons abound why they won't (not motivated/mentally exhausted from work BS/have lives and no longer have infinite free time). So I think "intelligent, and hard working", not "oh man could I never do something like that". Most of us spend time doing other, less geeky things, like reading, media consumption (spending time on HN). Sure, as we get older, we "slow down", but that's OK - I could write up game engines or other complex projects in a couple weeks when I was younger, but I would also make a lot of mistakes. Stuff is mostly intuitive now.